Asia v Latin America

EMERGING MARKETS

Advance Emerging Capital's Bernard Moody looks at the differences between investing in the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America

While it is an enormous challenge to attempt to compare two regions as large, diverse and complex as the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America in a single page, it is possible to make some general and interesting observations. Emerging Asia has half the world’s population while Latin America has around 8%; the total $ GDP of emerging Asia is only 2.5 times that of Latin America. Further, Latin America is much more urbanised and on a per capita basis its population is wealthier than the average emerging Asian country (in part because of the vast populations of India and China wher...